Legman Quotes & Sayings

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy. — Gershon Legman

When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down, or you can say, 'My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things,' even if what you see can scare the hell out of you."25 — James C. Collins

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself ... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'. — Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. — Peter Drucker

God, she can destroy me with just a look. I've faced horrors that no man or woman should have to see and faced them without qualms, but this woman and her two daughters bring me to my knees. — Kristen Proby

If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home. — Ted Sarandos

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily. — Marie Lu

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
Bill James — Michael Lewis

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance. — Marcel Proust

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free. — C.J. Milbrandt

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. — Manoj Arora

The Canadian-Australian mathematician Norman Wildberger has posted an essay arguing that real numbers are a joke. — Max Tegmark

Who had been fighting with someone they loved?
Going at it long enough to unleash the irretrievable words they knew to say only because they had been trusted to know what would hurt the most. — Bill Clegg

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't. — Brian Celio

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. — Gershon Legman

Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. The dolphins thought they were smarter for the same reason. — Gershon Legman

Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks. — Gershon Legman

Our era has produced many great men
robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business
whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species but then one has a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely.
-DR. Bertrand Legmam Cooper,
Problems of Science and Society,
Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900 — Anna Godbersen

You've travelled through life together
Enjoying years of wedded bliss
We congratulate you on reaching
And we toast your happiness — John Walter Bratton

I scoff. I'd kill for her metabolism. I can just smell food and my ass inflates. We — S.M. Shade